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Twig (template engine)

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Developer(s)
  
SensioLabs

Written in
  
PHP

Development status
  
Active

Original author(s)
  
Armin Ronacher, Fabien Potencier

Initial release
  
October 12, 2009 (2009-10-12)

Stable release
  
1.24.0 / January 26, 2016 (2016-01-26)

Twig is a template engine for the PHP programming language. Its syntax originates from Jinja and Django templates. It's an open source product licensed under a BSD License and maintained by Fabien Potencier. The initial version was created by Armin Ronacher. Symfony2 PHP framework comes with a bundled support for Twig as its default template engine.

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Features

  • complex control flow
  • automatic escaping
  • template inheritance
  • variable filters
  • i18n support (gettext)
  • macros
  • fully extendable

    • Twig is supported by the following integrated development environments:

  • Eclipse
  • Komodo
  • NetBeans
  • PhpStorm (natively)
  • Visual Studio

    • And the text editors:

  • Atom
  • emacs
  • Notepad++
  • Sublime Text
  • TextMate
  • vim

    • Syntax

    Twig defines three kinds of delimiters:

  • {% ... %}, which is used to execute statements, such as for-loops.
  • {{ ... }}, which is used to print the content of variables or the result of evaluating an expression (eg: an inherited Twig template with {{ parent() }}).
  • {# ... #}, which is used to add comments in the templates. These comments aren't included in the rendered page.

    • The apostrophe (') is the escape character.

    The operators precedence is, from the less to more priority:

    Example

    The example below demonstrates some basic features of Twig.

    References

    Twig (template engine) Wikipedia
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